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title: נָחוֹר — Nahor · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָחוֹר (5152), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: Nahor. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָחוֹר

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«נָחוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nahor** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 18 times · **Key:** 5152 · **BDB:** נָחוֹר

### Glosses

Nahor (11); of.Nahor (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nahor [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (connexion with √ obscure);— father of Teraḥ Gn 11:22, 23, 24, 25 (all P), 1 Ch 1:26. son of Teraḥ and brother of Abr. Gn 11:26, 27 (P), v 29(×2); 22:20, 23; 24:15, 24, 47 cf. 29:5 (all J), Jos 24:2 (E); עִיר נ׳ Gn 24:10 (J); אֶלֹהֵי נ׳ 31:53 (E).—𝔊 always Ναχωρ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָחוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5152/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/)

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שְׂר֥וּג נָח֖וֹר תָּֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* Serug Nahor Terah

*JPS 1917:* Serug, Nahor, Terah;

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[Genesis 11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.22/)

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וַיְחִ֥י שְׂר֖וּג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־נָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Serug thirty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Nahor

*JPS 1917:* And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

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